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I am probably writing what everyone is thinking, but has not said yet.

1. The BibleReader is a very good app. Too good. It copies many of the best features of ibooks.
2. Therefore, it is a competitor to ibooks for book revenue.
3. Apple and Olivetree are in contention over this app and the revenue it generates. No other Bible app competes with ibooks directly.
4. Therefore the delay.

I hope they will reach a compromise soon. In waiting, I have started to download competitor products and finding them to be satisfying for my needs.

I am praying for the approval for this app! Keep our prayer tight everyone!

Ps. Stephen, I have tried contact the olive tree support several time and begging them to have the traditional chinese union version put on ipod, but no luck. Many of us here in the bay area really love to be able to study the word with English and Chinese side by side. Any suggestion? Will this be on iPad?

I am an app developer, and one of my apps got held up because we used an interface that was similar to the iPhone “dock” design.

I’m wondering if this is getting held up because the books interface is so close to the iBooks bookshelf.

Also, I’m thinking that by now if Apple has a problem with the app, they would have contacted Olive Tree and told them about it. It is unusual, at this point in the approval system, to go one month without contact from apple.

Has there been any contact, feedback, changes needed, or at least progress in the approval section of iTunesConnect?

The reason it is delayed is not because of duplicated functionality because Bible reader is nothing like iBooks. I mean think about it. It is a study tool not a reading tool. Plus, Amazon Kindle is direct competition and Apple approved that app.

Lonnie,
Read the link above your post on the last page representation from Olive Tree says it is the complexity of the app “and the built in book store” that are holding it up..No offense but Amazon has the money to muscle there app through. All we can do now is wait and hope that Olive Tree gets this resolved soon.

Happy cinco de mayo…..just heard apple rejected the app…has this ever happened with the iPhone version…do you have to start the process all over or do you get to fix whatever they said was wrong and keep your place in line……?

I am sorry this isn’t clearer. We are working on updating our app descriptions. The only difference is the content that comes with the app. The software is the same for all apps. The $.99 app comes with the ASV, KJV, Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary, and Jamieson, Faucett, and Brown Commentary. The free app comes with ASV and KJV. You can download Matthew Henry’s concise commentary for free in the integrated store. The Jamieson, Faucett, and Brown Commentary is not free.

I had feedback, but it’s not clear where I can leave that. Can someone confirm that this feedback got to someone that can deal with it?

I did some bible studying, made notes, etc. I then took the bible study to an actual bible study, where I was supposed to share what I had learned on a particular topic. I opened up my note categories, tapped the category in question, and then the first note that I wanted to see. From the note, I went to the verse, but I found out really quickly that I couldn’t get back to my note category to grab the next verse. So, I went through the whole process of navigating to the notes again, to get my next verse, and did that about 10 times.

So, here’s my suggestion.
1. when you’re in a note, make the title bar that has the scripture reference into the link to the verse, as opposed to having to click “more”.
2. In the note, when you’re viewing it from within the bible, add an icon to go DIRECTLY to the category the note is in
3. Combine bookmarks and notes together as one feature, as really they are totally related.